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The Party: The Secret World of China`s Communist Rulers

China`s Communist Party is the largest, most powerful political machine in the world. Here, for the first time, Richard McGregor delves deeply into its inner sanctum, revealing how this secretive cabal keeps control...

The Pearl

The Penguin Book of the British Short Story 2

The Portrait of a Lady

Isabel Archer has been brought to England from Albany, New York, by her Aunt Touchett to extend her education, possibly to marry well. Isabel, proud and independent, has other ideas. She has no desire to marry and...

The Purple Cloud

The Penguin Book of Card Games

The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World

In The Quest, master storyteller, leading energy expert and Pulitzer prize-winner for The Prize, Daniel Yergin shows us how energy is the ultimate engine of global political and economic change, in a gripping story...

The Queen and I

The Monarchy Has Been Dismantled. When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the...

The Quantum Universe

What is quantum physics? How does it help us understand our amazing world? Where does it leave Newton and Einstein? And why, above all, can we be sure that the theory is good? This title gives us the real science...

The Riddle of the Sands

Languishing one summer at the Foreign Office in London, Carruthers is rescued by an unexpected invitation to join Arthur Davies on the `Dulcibella` in the Baltic. A grouse-shooting party or a weekend at Cowes would...

The Railway Children

The Red Badge of Courage

Two days of fighting on a woodland battlefield are focused through the excited senses of a raw Union recruit, Henry Fleming. Dreaming of heroism, but shamefully discovering his own mortal fear of danger and death -...

The Reckoning

The Replacement

Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a...

The Rain Before It Falls

Deeply moving and compelling, The Rain Before It Falls is the story of three generations of one family riven by tragedy. When Rosamond, a reluctant bearer of family secrets, dies suddenly, a mystery is left for her...

The Radetzky March

The Slave

The Secret Rooms. A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a

The Shadow Puppet

The Stone Gods

The Smell of Hay

The Sign of Four

The Swiss Family Robinson

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

The worldas first Zen Buddhist paranormal romanceapublished to coincide with Halloween. One of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevinas comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka,...

The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries: 22 Stories

The Sherlock Holmes Mysteri...